Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres
Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
Catalogue Entry
1932.20
Empire State Building
1932
Incised wood
13 x 5 1/2 x 3 3/8 in. (33 x 14 x 8.5 cm)
Signed and dated verso: J. Torres-GARCIA 32;
Incised on verso:J.T.G.
Incised on verso:J.T.G.
Private collection
Provenance
Exhibitions
The Menil Collection, Houston, Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood, September 25, 2009–January 3, 2010. (Ramírez 2009); (The Menil Collection 2010), no. 84, ill., p. 169. Traveled to: San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, February 20–May 3, 2010.
Museo de la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Torres-García: Utopía y Tradición, May 23–July 31, 2011. (Museo de la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero 2011), ill., p. 15, fig. 12; p. 76.
Ibere Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Joaquín Torres García: geometría, criação, proporção, September 10–November 20, 2011, ill., p. 133. Traveled to: Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil, December 3, 2011–February 26, 2012.
Record last updated April 27, 2015. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: de Torres, Cecilia, Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti. "Empire State Building, 1932 (1932.20)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1320 (accessed on April 26, 2025).